This bulletin covers all Cognito2 models, all Choreo models and CognitoPC for Windows and OSX (except El Capitan), whether used as a console or as an OLE. The original Cognito console is excluded from this bulletin.

OVERVIEW: A new software build February 29 2016 has been released for Cognito2 lighting consoles, Choreo wall controllers and CognitoPC installations. This build includes significant feature enhancements, optimization and stability improvements and numerous bug fixes.

All Cognito2 consoles must be running the October 27 2015 build prior to updating. To access all update files for all models, click here.

CognitoPC users running on Mac under El Capitan should not perform this upgrade due to a known issue with El Capitan.

New Features

Power screen has a new ENABLE OUTPUTS button. Releasing this toggle disables all outputs (DMX512 and eDMX). There are System Actions to Enable and Disable Outputs that can be assigned to Memories and Cues and Time Events. Contact Closures, Lua API calls (serial, telnet) or DMX/eDMX IN can activate these events. Control of Outputs is very handy for ‘hand-off’ in architectural situations. API.OutputsEnable(true|false) was added to the list of other API commands for show control situations.

Fade/Delay times can be entered in HH:MM:SS.s format and have fades much longer than 999s.

New ICPS clock icons in Playlist with delay and follow times shown in HH:MM:SS format. When a cue is running, the yellow progress bar on the cue obscures Amber (Intensity), Purple (Color), Green (Position) and Pink (Shape) horizontal timeline bars which show the start and length of ICPS fades per cue.

Better indication/options when inserting before and after existing cues during the Record Task. You used to have to enter new data (apparently over old) then press Done, THEN decide if the cue overwrote the existing cue or inserted before or after the existing cue. Two new buttons on all cues in the Record Task now allow you to choose where you want the new cue to go and a green bar between cues shows you exactly where it will land.

Improved predictive cue numbering and automatic cue labeling when inserting cues between cues (i.e., insert between “Cue 1” and “Cue 2” will result in a suggested cue label “Cue 1.5”. Insert a cue after “Girl moves DS” will become “After Girl moves DS”)

You can now see which color a light will be when it uses a fixed color wheel. Previously you would only see Color Mix colors.

DMX In can now trigger Buttons or Sliders. It used to just run the Slider in proportion to its value. Now non-zero values from a DMX source will trigger a down button press on a Momentary Memory. Only use this feature with Memories configured to use Momentary or Timed Bump Modes.

Changes

Updated Cognito Hints and new Choreo-specific Hints

Record task shows follow cues, running cues, cues with actions and timecode. Before it just showed a list of cues and if you had a follow cue, it looked different in the Record task than it did in the Play task.

When Record Only Changes is set to No (the default), if you were overwriting a cue, a dialog would ask if you wanted to Update or Replace the existing cue. In this case, it was one in the same thing. It now no longer shows Record Replace.

Text Change: In Cue properties , the Follow options was “Follow after fade”. It is now “Follow on after fade” which better shows that you need to apply the Follow to Cue 1 to automatically get to Cue 2.

Text Change: With a “Follow on after fade”, the default LINK was ‘None’ which meant that the next cue would in fact run. This lead some to believe they needed to specify “Cue 2” if they wanted that to run after “Cue 1”. The text “None” has been changed to “Next cue”.

Bug Fixes

Couldn’t record Memory > 40 (paging problem in Record Task)

Cleanup of arrow location in SETUP SYSTEM SET TIME

Smoother movement with Sliders in Wall Station Mode

Library updated required a reboot when fixture definitions were added. This is no longer necessary.